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by _dps 8y ago
You may be right and I might be out of touch with what is mainstream these days. But to be clear, I wasn't claiming Friedman's ideas were the only ones in Monetarism. Obviously a lot has happened since the 70s (or even 10 years ag
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by _dps 8y ago
I imagine you're referring to Austrian economics here, but much more mainstream economists believe inflation to be fundamentally about money supply as well. Here's (nobel prize winner) Milton Friedman, from Wikiquote: "Inflat
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by _dps 8y ago
> ... and thinks it's because his being white/male makes him inherently better ... Could you clarify how you reached this conclusion about someone specific, as opposed to a generalized fear such a person might exist? In many ye
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by _dps 8y ago
Edit: re-re-reading here, I now see I misunderstood your response and I'm sorry. I do think you're using "entitlement" in a way different from how most people understand it in a political context, but I also now understa
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by _dps 8y ago
> ... when someone call social security an "entitlement" people get offended. I broadly agree with your overall points but I think it's worth examining this point a bit more. Social Security has been presented at various t
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by _dps 8y ago
This would be a lot better without the rudeness.
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by _dps 8y ago
I was a bit unfocused, but I meant my comment to suggest that what you perceive as this community having a number of "loud trolls" may be overblown. I have been on HN for many years and the number of times I've seen a comment
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by _dps 8y ago
Consider the possibility that what you perceive as "a troll saying intentionally awful things dressed up as polite language" may be a person who sincerely disagrees with you, and is also being polite about it. That seems to be the
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by _dps 9y ago
"Demonetized" is exactly the term used both by Youtube creators and by Youtube representatives for this phenomenon for as long as it has been around. Youtube first made the pitch that you could "monetize" your videos.
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by _dps 9y ago
> The worst conforming ACA plans are essentially the catastrophic insurance that people think they are clamoring for Just an anecdote, but I have not found this to be the case at all, and I'd figure I'd offer an example of one
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by _dps 9y ago
Thanks, very interesting!
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by _dps 9y ago
> We pass signals in our brain, they can cross from neuron to neuron in about 10ms Could you clarify this point for a non-biologist? I understand the neuron-to-neuron transmission is not going to happen at the full electrical conductivit
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by _dps 9y ago
> Hate speech has no upside and causes much harm. You're begging the question here, assuming that what is called hate speech is necessarily harmful. I am quite certain that in the US political climate much of Palestinian political
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by _dps 9y ago
I really wish the press (and a subset of highly vocal Deep Learning practitioners) would stop conflating Deep Networks with the entirety of AI/ML. This hallucination problem is 1) highly pronounced in this one class of methods that has
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by _dps 9y ago
Could a lawyer educate me on a technical matter here? They say that "discriminatory statements are not protected". Is "discriminatory statement" a matter of law or a matter of fact? Naively I'd expect a jury to deci
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by _dps 9y ago
According to conventional physiology statistics (where you figure most traits are normally distributed) it applies even more to the Olympics — population differences are more pronounced at the extremes, not less. To put it another way, the
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by _dps 9y ago
You make a fair point but you've drawn a slightly broader scenario than I had in mind. Surely if you initiate an email to myfriend@obscureserver.com with the title "Hey buddy" and you get back a reply titled "Re: Hey bud
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by _dps 9y ago
I think the point was that initiating communication with an address is an extremely strong signal of willingness to receive (vs clicking a link, or replying, etc.). I think it's reasonable to expect to receive responses to proactively-
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by _dps 9y ago
> It doesn't matter as much which degree you get as an undergraduate. In my experience this is a very US-middle-class-upward-centric idea. The working class people I know who went to college were all rationally concerned about picki
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by _dps 9y ago
I haven't looked at it in a while, so I could be wrong, but I think with small enough programs you can still squeeze some payload into L1 in long tight loops where you're not jumping up and down the Python stack a lot. But your ov
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by _dps 9y ago
I was with you up until the last paragraph. Taken literally you seem to suggest there is no such thing as a CPU-bound workload. That's obviously not the case (cryptography is just one such example), but I would agree that many people t
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by _dps 9y ago
Agreed, and riffing on that a bit — I find the name "debugger" is actually troublesome when teaching newcomers (I work with kids of various ages). I see the debugger much more like a "REPL for a compiled language" than a
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by _dps 9y ago
> As mentioned, there is a difference between bias and uniform bias. You are simply mistaken in your interpretation of the technical term "unbiased estimator". This has a specific meaning in statistics, and is required for the
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by _dps 9y ago
>>> As the number of people independently asked approaches infinity, the error approaches 0. >> Only if people are an unbiased estimator!! > You'd think so, but that's not correct. Either you're misinterpret
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by _dps 9y ago
There's a whole body of theory on Adaptive Control (what the control systems community has called what we would now called "learning based control"). This is one of the classic texts: https://www.amazon.com/Ad
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by _dps 9y ago
I am too ignorant of musical history to evaluate the analogy, but taking the myth-story as given in popular understanding (presumably based on "Amadeus") I think the content of the argument is clear, even if he picked terrible exa
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by _dps 9y ago
I will fully agree with you that many interview practices are bad and "cargo cult". I'm just saying that I disagree on where the burden of proof is. The fact that large fractions of the industry do it and seem to believe that
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by _dps 9y ago
> The extraordinary claim is that whiteboard testing (or take-home projects, or...well, anything in the current tech interview) does any of those things. This is just a naked assertion. This kind of testing happens in many places and ind
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by _dps 9y ago
I half-agree, but Spolsky also makes an excellent argument in "Hitting the High Notes" [0] that there is disproportionate value delivered from excellence, as opposed to mere competence ("Five Antonio Salieris won’t produce M
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by _dps 9y ago
Regular police do use those tools. SWAT is "special weapons and tactics", the heavy-equipment arm of the police used precisely in situations of such danger that normal levels of force are not appropriate (in this case, a situati

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